Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:17:51 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su root hangs when logged in via SSH Message-ID: <5.0.1.4.1.20001213161636.01fec1b0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <3A37E70C.3A935224@telehouse.ch> References: <5.0.1.4.1.20001213153948.01fc9df0@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 10:15 PM 12/13/00 +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I had a similar problem to this in the past where syslogd was kind of
> > hung, and the su was blocking waiting for I guess syslog to return. If you
> > can login as root on the console, kill syslogd, restart it and see if su
> > works once again.
>
>Nope, it does not work again. But after a couple of seconds after
>restarting syslogd I've got this messages on the console:
> "syslogd: timed out waiting for child"
>
>Another note, syslogd does not go with a normal kill, it needs a kill -9
>to make it into heaven.
>
>Could this be related to having a serial console?
Possibly, or its trying to write something in /etc/syslog.conf thats
causing it to hang. This might be totally unrelated to your problem at
hand, but I did run into something like this before with the same symptons.
Take a look at /etc/syslog.conf and make sure its not trying to send output
where it cannot.
---Mike
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